Tree

A small tree in our garden, it's a 'common medlar' (according to wikipedia) and the flowers are from a nearby rose tree. Medlars ('mispels' in Dutch) are somewhat of a 'forgotten fruit' not unlike the so-called 'forgotten vegetables' (do non-Dutch people know that term? It refers to old-fashioned vegetables like celeriac, parsnip, turnip that used to be very common but became quite rare, at least here) and hence a rarity in gardens. We didn't plant it, it was already in the garden when we bought the house. I've never eaten one of our medlars as they require night frost and two-three weeks of 'fermenting' before they're edible and the one time we did let them ferment they just started rotting... which technically is fermenting but not really what we wanted.